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(Collaborative post by Mateusz “j00ru” Jurczyk and Gynvael Coldwind; a short version is available at the Google Online Security blog). Following more than two years of work, the day has finally came – the FFmpeg project has incorporated more than a thousand fixes to bugs (including some security issues) we have discovered in the project […]

(Collaborative post by Mateusz “j00ru” Jurczyk, Gynvael Coldwind and Adam Iwaniuk) Friday, the 7th of September 2012 we were supposed to play the securitytraps.no-ip.org CTF. Unfortunately, the competition was postponed for a later date at the last moment, due to some significant technical problems. Next day evening we accidentally discovered another CTF taking place – […]

[Note: Collaborative post by Gynvael Coldwind and Mateusz “j00ru” Jurczyk] Five weeks ago, we have taken part in a fancy game-development competition aka Google GameJam 48h. As the name implies, the contest lasted for precisely two days; unfortunately, we were proven to lack supernatural powers and had to spend some of the precious time sleeping […]

A nearly year ago, a critical Windows Shell vulnerability was found in the wild (stuxnet & co), making it possible for an attacker to execute arbitrary code on a victim’s computer, by getting the user to list a directory which would contain a specially crafted .LNK file. The sole purpose of files of that type […]

While performing some random research related to the WIN32K.SYS driver syscalls a few months ago, I stumbled on an interesting finding – when examining the full 32-bit (or in the case of the original research – 64) return values, some of the services seemed to return unusual numbers, for example 0xfffffa8000ea0000. After investigating the subject […]

Around three weeks ago, Bartek announced a competition called “Pimp My CrackMe” on his http://secnews.pl/ website. The main prize was a free pass to the CONFidence 2011 conference, which is going to take place in on 24-25 May, in Cracow. The task was to create an interesting CrackMe program, which would then be judged based […]

Hey there! Today, I would like to post a less-technical text, discussing two issues I have recently came across, or been busy with; don’t worry though, as CSRSS Write-Up: IPC (part 2/3) is on the way. The first matter is about recent changes applied to the blog appearance and functionality, while the latter regards the […]